Barely 40 years old, at the age of 39 beautiful girl Yahoo boss Marissa Mayer, reported to have been able to collect a total fortune of US $ 500 million or equivalent to Rp 6.25 billion. According to Business Insider reported pages, US $ 300 million he got when serving for about 13 years at Google, while the remaining US $ 200 million he achieved as head of Yahoo.
Mayer has now become one of the most influential women in the technology industry. It is not easy, given up to now should be recognized women still underestimated in the world of technology.
So how do Mayer to succeed in the corporate environment technology?
Nicholas Carlson in his book titled Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo !, he mentions five key success Mayer in taking his career. Here are the details:
1. Choose the most frightening
When graduating from Stanford, Mayer has plenty of career opportunities. He could choose to be a high-paying IT consultant, to continue their studies and become a professor, or he may be able to live hard to build a startup. Mayer then what to do?
He chose to join a startup company. He was deeply impressed by the ingenuity and innovative vision of the workers who are members of a startup. Did startup what Mayer selected to work? The answer is Google. Yes, Google is now transformed into a giant company internet based. Mayer himself is Google's 20th employee at the time.
2. Identify weaknesses yourself
At Google, Mayer worked as a programmer to build a digital advertising system Google. It took months for Mayer to develop. Then Google employs others, namely Jeff Dean are able to resolve Google's advertising system in a matter of weeks. Mayer did not get discouraged, seeing his ability as a programmer is not enough, he also studied business strategy to help the marketing of Google.
3. Know when to say goodbye
Mayer known to be involved in the tough competition of the tops of Google. But it does not interfere with the performance of Mayer. He was still able to produce a lot of work. One is the development of the Google Maps application for the iPhone.
But when he locked horns with one Google investor named Dan Loeb, Mayer knew he had reached the stage of having to say goodbye. And scoop. Yahoo's CEO at the time, Carol Bratz fired, and in early 2012 the position offered to Mayer.
source: businessinsider.com
